I am about 3/4 of the way through the Farmer's Wife and using scraps in a traditional color way. I was worried about balance of colors and would lay them our from time to time but found very few places where I had too much brown or too much blue. Made just a couple of changes but not many. I was doing the blocks in order so I just keep rotating my color choices so no two color ways were next to each other. Seemed to be working just fine. Guess I could cut my sashing then start stringing them together. After three years, I am not in a big hurry. Summer, maybe.